Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 July 2001 at 14:30 involving a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 14:30 on Thursday 19 July 2001. The 29-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2001
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ER500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51959, longitude -0.05706, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00838
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1991.
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HD00060
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00718
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HT00520
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00837
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 5 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HD00036
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 19 May 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010309617
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER500
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER500)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200101HT00838 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 2001.